Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822221
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scientific name	Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018
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Lampris megalopsis Underkoffler, Luers, Hyde, & Craig, 2018 .

Bigeye Pacific Opah. Maximum length to at least 124 cm (48.8 in) FL (Matthew Craig, pers. comm. to M.L.) and undocumented to 183 cm (72 in) TL ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Circumglobal; at least California and Chile (John Hyde, pers. comm. to M.L.). Pelagic, oceanic; depth: surface to perhaps 736 m (2,414 ft) ( Polovina et al. 2008).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Lampriformes
Family	Lampridae
Genus	Lampris

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